Roe vs Wade

Vendredi, dès l'annonce de la décision, des manifestants ont afflué par centaines vers le temple du droit à Washington, avec des larmes de joie ou de tristesse.

Concrètement, celui-ci porte sur une loi du Mississippi qui se contentait de réduire le délai légal pour avorter. Depuis le climat était extrêmement tendu autour de la Cour, où une imposante barrière de sécurité a été installée pour tenir les protestataires à distance. « La Constitution ne fait aucune référence à l’avortement et aucun de ses articles ne protège implicitement ce droit », écrit le juge Samuel Alito au nom de la majorité. Roe v. Cette décision ne rend pas les interruptions de grossesse illégales, mais renvoie les États-Unis à la situation en vigueur avant l’arrêt emblématique « Roe v. Dans les rangs officiels, les réactions étaient également aux antipodes. We know you may be feeling a lot of things right now — hurt, anger, confusion.

The high court's monumental ruling will have major impact on Texas, which has a trigger law banning abortions that goes into effect soon.

Blackmun agreed with Coffee and Weddington’s argument that the right to privacy in the U.S. Constitution extended to a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion. Now, legal experts say this may represent the first of many legal questions that will need to be sorted out by the courts as the state begins to navigate an entirely new reproductive health care landscape. Under the current law banning abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, these abortion funds have helped hundreds of pregnant people leave the state to get an abortion. In December, the court heard arguments in Dobbs v. Texas, the birthplace of Roe v. Most of Texas’ neighboring states are also expected to outlaw abortion as a result of this ruling, with one exception: New Mexico. As the sole outlier in the region, New Mexico is expected to become a haven for Texans seeking abortions. Friday’s ruling represents a victory nearly five decades in the making for Texas’ anti-abortion advocates, who have played an outsized role in the national effort to overturn Roe v. More than five decades ago, a woman identified in the legal filings as Jane Roe, later revealed to be Norma McCorvey, wanted an abortion. Paxton closed his state offices for the day, declaring he "making it an annual holiday—as a memorial to the 70 million lives lost bc of abortion." "All Americans deserve to live under a rule of law that respects their bodily autonomy and reproductive decisions." This represents one of the most significant judicial reversals in generations and is expected to have far-reaching consequences for all Texans. "The answer is that without further action by the Texas Legislature, abortion will soon be clearly illegal in Texas."

Il est attendu que l'interruption volontaire de grossesse sera désormais illégale dans la moitié des États, dont plusieurs du Midwest et du sud du pays. La ...

Ces lois demeuraient fragiles et sujettes à contestation sous le régime de Roe v. La Cour estime de plus que la décision Roe v. Ces femmes risquent donc d’avoir des antécédents criminels pour avoir obtenu une interruption de grossesse alors que leurs voisines de l’État d’à côté n’auront pas à faire face à de telles conséquences judiciaires. La seule clinique d’avortement encore ouverte dans cet État, le Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a porté la bataille judiciaire à bout de bras, cherchant à faire invalider la mesure législative. Au gré des élections et des nominations de juges républicains, plusieurs s’en étaient pris à la décision phare du plus haut tribunal américain. Ce jugement à 6 contre 3, rendu public vendredi, ne rend pas l’avortement illégal. Mais il enlève la barrière érigée par Roe v.

La Cour suprême des États-Unis a enterré, vendredi, l'arrêt Roe vs Wade qui, depuis près d'un demi-siècle, garantissait le droit des Américaines à avorter.

Suivez les réactions à l'annonce de la Cour suprême dans notre direct. La Cour suprême américaine a révoqué vendredi 24 juin le droit constitutionnel à l'avortement aux États-Unis, revenant sur l’arrêt Roe vs Wade de 1973. - Les trois Etats progressistes de la côte Ouest, la Californie, l'Oregon et Washington, ont de leur côté annoncé qu'ils s'engageaient ensemble à défendre le droit à l'avortement.

In the decision authored by Justice Samuel Alito, the justices of the Supreme Court upheld a state law in Mississippi that bans abortion after 15 weeks. They ...

La Cour suprême est revenue, vendredi, sur l'arrêt Roe vs Wade reconnaissant le droit à l'avortement aux Etats-Unis. Gilles Paris, ancien correspondant du ...

La plus haute institution judiciaire du pays a été rattrapée par la polarisation extrême qui fait régner un climat de guerre civile larvée et qui divise toujours plus profondément les Etats en deux camps. Les démocrates réfléchissent de longue date à cette question, car ils ont bien pris note du virage conservateur inauguré en 2008 par un arrêt créant un droit à l’autodéfense à partir du deuxième amendement, suivi de la suppression des plafonds en matière de financement politique, ou de la suppression du contrôle fédéral pour les lois électorales (qui explique la multiplication des textes réduisant le poids des minorités). Joe Biden a mis sur pied une commission pour réfléchir à une éventuelle augmentation du nombre de juges, qui dépendrait cependant de l’aval du Congrès, difficile à obtenir. Cette dégradation explique la protection dont bénéficient désormais les juges après qu’un homme armé s’est rendu près du domicile de l’un d’entre eux dans le dessein de le tuer, avant de se livrer à la police. Cette évolution est particulièrement risquée compte tenu de la dégradation de l’image de cette institution parmi les Américains, désormais au plus bas selon le vénérable institut Gallup. Elle est connue de longue date : les juges conservateurs considèrent que leurs prédécesseurs ont outrepassé leurs droits et « légiféré depuis le banc » en se substituant aux élus du Congrès, selon la formule consacrée. Ils estiment ensuite, selon une lecture littéraliste de la Constitution, que, comme le droit fédéral à l’avortement n’est pas mentionné expressément dans celle-ci – ce qui n’est pas étonnant s’agissant d’un texte vieux de plus de deux siècles –, les juges ne peuvent pas le tirer d’un autre texte, en l’occurrence l’amendement 14. En revanche, 84 % des Américains « non affiliés » religieusement, c’est-à-dire qui ne s’identifient à aucune croyance, disent que l’avortement devrait être légal dans tous les cas ou dans la plupart, tout comme 66 % des protestants noirs, 60 % des protestants blancs non évangéliques et 56 % des catholiques. Tous les sondages récents, y compris à la suite de la publication de la première ébauche de l’arrêt annulant le droit fédéral à l’avortement, en mai, ont montré qu’une majorité nette et stable de personnes interrogées soutenait le maintien de Roe vs Wade. L’arrêt d’aujourd’hui va évidemment provoquer la mobilisation du camp démocrate, mais il va tout autant galvaniser le camp républicain, qui touche au but après des décennies d’un travail de sape opiniâtre dans la perspective des élections de mi-mandat. Si on se réfère au Pew Research Center, 61 % des personnes interrogées considèrent que l’avortement doit être autorisé dans « tous ou presque tous » les cas, contre 37 % qui sont d’un avis opposé. Environ trois quarts des protestants évangéliques blancs (74 %), le socle de l’électorat du Parti républicain, pensent que l’avortement devrait être illégal dans tous les cas ou dans la plupart des cas. On voit le résultat… Le second point notable est que la Cour suprême, par le passé, est déjà revenue sur sa jurisprudence, mais il s’agissait alors d’accorder de nouveaux droits, pas d’en supprimer, surtout sur une question aussi douloureuse et intime. Cet arrêt est sans appel, puisque la Cour suprême est la plus haute instance judiciaire des Etats-Unis, mais dans le futur la Cour suprême pourra éventuellement rétablir ce droit. On en est loin, très loin même, compte tenu de l’importance prise par l’avortement dans la guerre culturelle conduite par le camp conservateur et républicain. Les conservateurs avaient gardé le plus mauvais souvenir de juges nommés par des présidents républicains devenus progressistes, comme John Paul Stevens, nommé par Gerald Ford, devenu le défenseur d’une lecture extrêmement restrictive du droit à porter une arme.

Canadian politicians are responding to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to end constitutional protections for abortion, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ...

3 hr ago Wade decision paves the way for about half of the 50 states to ban or heavily restrict women's access to abortions. 3 hr ago 3 hr ago 3 hr ago The U.S. Supreme Court has ended the nation's constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Not too conservative.' Trudeau announced Tuesday morning that the confidence-and-supply agreement has been brokered, and is effective immediately. The stunning leak of a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion to strike down the landmark Roe v. While abortion was decriminalized in Canada in 1988 as a result of the landmark R. v. Wade is a "reversal of hard-fought gains" for women. "No government, politician, or man should tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her body.

Anti-abortion activists say they will now turn attention to states as pro-choice advocates vow to fight on. Mark Gollom · CBC News · Posted: Jun 24, ...

And then I just took a deep breath and said, 'I gotta get to the court and get back to work.'" But Harris said she needed some time for it to sink in. "We are going to fight back," she said. Wade," she said. Debra Long-Doyle was also at home when she heard the news and also felt compelled to come down to the court. Sherman is the head of We Testify, an organization that supports women who have had abortions. "Then I cancelled that call to come here. Later in the day, with many of the anti-abortion demonstrators having left, the area became more of a rally of defiance for the remaining pro-choice crowd. "I'm overjoyed," she said. Wade interpretation of the constitution and found that it does not protect abortion rights, opening the way for states to restrict or outright ban the medical procedure. The area had been cordoned off as part of ramped-up security measures in the days after a draft of the court's opinion was leaked. On Friday, security was beefed up even more and police stood behind the fence, arresting a few who tried to climb it.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling powered by its conservative majority, upheld on Friday a Republican-backed Mississippi law that bans abortion after ...

The justices in 2016 struck down a Texas law imposing strict regulations on abortion facilities and doctors. The justices in 2020 struck down a Louisiana law that similarly placed restrictions on doctors who perform abortions. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the only abortion clinic remaining in Mississippi, challenged the 2018 law and had the support of Biden’s administration. The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2019 reached the same conclusion. As a result of Friday’s ruling, “from the very moment of fertilization, a woman has no rights to speak of. The court, in a 6-3 ruling powered by its conservative majority, upheld a Republican-backed Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Trump’s appointees – Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett – were in the majority in Friday’s ruling. Before the Roe decision, many states banned abortion, leaving women who wanted to terminate a pregnancy with few options. Mississippi’s law had been blocked by lower courts as a violation of Supreme Court precedent on abortion rights. The Supreme Court in a 1992 ruling called Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division,” Alito added. The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday took the dramatic step of overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v.

Friday's 6-3 decision delivered by Justice Samuel Alito, with all three liberal justices dissenting, reverses the historic 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. That ...

Access to the procedure in the U.S. was already uneven, however. This is an historic victory for the Constitution and for the most vulnerable in our society. A 2.4-metre-tall fence was erected around the Supreme Court in the days after the leak as part of ramped-up security measures. That original ruling found that a woman's decision to terminate a pregnancy was protected by the right to privacy that flows from the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which protects a citizen's right to "life, liberty and property." Pro-choice activists worry that these medical abortions, or abortifacients, are the next frontier for some states. The invalidation of Roe v. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division," said Alito. The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Dobbs is courageous and correct. The Supreme Court decision also overturns the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Wade, sparked outrage and protests across the country. Wade opinion that has secured constitutional protections for abortion in the U.S. for nearly 50 years. But for Lauren Marlowe, 22 from Fredericksburg, Va., this was a day to celebrate, "I'm so excited.

The impact of the Roe v. Wade ruling in the United States, allowing states to ban abortions, is being felt here in the nation's capital.

Unfortunately, two popular beaches will be closed to swimming because of E. coli contamination. She told court why her nephews were found in an empty room, locked shut with rope. Gas prices are changing summer travel plans across the region. Peter Riley was a little bloodied and very bruised, but said the incident won't keep him off his bike. Those who know the debate most intimately said there's little nuance to be found in Quebec Premier Legault's arguments about Quebec's immigration model. 1 hr ago 1 hr ago The U.S. Supreme Court has ended the nation's constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Since then there’s been no legislation that was ever passed to replace it. “Thank god for all the people who have been fighting for more than 50 years.” Wade decision in the United States. Wade ruling in the United States, allowing states to ban abortions, is being felt here in the nation’s capital.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ended the nation's constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its ...

Wade decision paves the way for about half of the 50 states to ban or heavily restrict women's access to abortions. The U.S. Supreme Court has ended the nation's constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine predicted Gorsuch and Kavanaugh wouldn't support overturning the abortion cases, based on private conversations she had with them when they were nominees to the Supreme Court. "The clear purpose and actual effect of S. B. 8 has been to nullify this Court's rulings," Roberts wrote, in a partial dissent. That dispute turned on the unique structure of the law, including its enforcement by private citizens rather than by state officials, and how it can be challenged in court. But in the intervening weeks, Ginsburg died and Barrett was quickly nominated and confirmed without a single Democratic vote. But the state always was headed to the nation's highest court. Changing the makeup of the court has been central to the anti-abortion side's strategy, as the dissenters archly noted. Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department "will work tirelessly to protect and advance reproductive freedom." "We therefore hold that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion. Alito, in the final opinion issued Friday, wrote that Roe and Planned Parenthood v. The U.S. Supreme Court has ended the nation's constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v.

It shows how much standing up and fighting for rights matters every day,” the prime minister said of the U.S. Supreme Court decision.

But many advocates say the government’s focus should be on improving access to abortions. Abortions will likely soon be illegal in the border states of North Dakota and Idaho. “Today I think of those generations of women around the world and specifically in the United States who fought so hard to gain rights … and are facing this devastating setback,” he said.

Reaction of Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) to the Supreme Court's opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, June 24, 2022.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont will continue to advocate for our employees and our members’ right to obtain abortion care. The ruling in the case, Dobbs v. By abandoning five decades of legal precedent to repeal a cherished and fundamental right, the Supreme Court has betrayed the American people. Access to abortion will be protected in Vermont, and that protection will be enshrined in the Constitution by Vermont voters on November 8 with the passage of Prop 5. Wade. Every person should have the right to control their own health care decisions, including the right to abortion care. Leahy. In 2019, Act 47 created a statute that further protects unlimited, unregulated abortion through all nine months of pregnancy irrespective of the US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs. “In Vermont, a person’s right to choose is secure, and the City will continue its record of doing everything possible to defend reproductive access. Increasingly, it is clear, we must reform the way the U.S. Supreme Court is constituted to rebuild and restore its own legitimacy.” “The U.S. Supreme Court is quickly losing credibility in the eyes of many Americans. Our democracy depends on our ability to restore legitimacy to this essential branch of our government. “Additionally, in November, Vermonters will be able to further solidify this action with a constitutional amendment on the ballot. “Today will go down as a tragic day in the fight for human rights and women’s rights. Today’s opinion from a narrow majority of the Court is not the end of abortion.

The ruling issued Friday was hailed by leading Catholic bishops, even though a majority of U.S. Catholics support abortion rights.

We must urge legislators to protect the unborn, and we must provide compassionate support for women that will help them choose life.” — Adam Greenway, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, in a statement. … Today’s decision institutionalizes inequality because women with access to resources will be able to exercise their moral judgment in ways that women without the same resources will not.” — Michael Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, in a statement. This is a human rights victory beyond all others and justifies the decades of tireless work by selfless pro-life individuals and organizations.” — Troy Newman, president of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, in a statement. … Americans United is readying religious freedom litigation which will bring this argument to our courts.” — Rachel Laser, president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a group representing secular Americans, in a statement. “Today’s ruling is further evidence that the regressive political agenda of the far-right has reached the highest court in the land. … We mourn their loss, and we entrust their souls to God.” — Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Baltimore Archbishop William Lori, in a joint statement. But our work has just begun.” — Salvatore Cordileone, Catholic archbishop of San Francisco, in a statement. This ruling is the culmination of that misguided campaign.” — John Gehring, Catholic program director at the Washington-based clergy network Faith in Public Life, via Twitter. Now, it seems only certain people are entitled to religious liberty, which renders the entire concept meaningless.” — Sheila Katz, CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, in a statement. For nearly fifty years, America has enforced an unjust law that has permitted some to decide whether others can live or die; this policy has resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of preborn children. “The release of the Dobbs decision marks a true turning point in the pro-life movement, a moment that Christians, advocates and many others have worked toward tirelessly for 50 years. “Today’s Supreme Court decision … discarding nearly 50 years of precedent, will endanger the lives and well-being of birthing people who do not choose to continue pregnancy.

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion. Here's a look at what the decision meant across the US Friday.

The most hotly awaited decision of the term sparked a firestorm of reaction. Wade,” she said, “overturning the constitutional right to an abortion and with that decision, Roe v. He said he's scared about what the future may hold but urged women, LGBTQ people and their allies to keep fighting for their rights. Former President Donald Trump, who nominated three members of the Supreme Court majority that struck down Roe v. “The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Dobbs is courageous and correct,” he said. "And if this were the final decision, that was the point that it should be resolved one way or another in the legislative process. As Republican lawmakers move to ban abortion in about half of U.S. states following the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to overturn Roe v. But after learning of the high court’s decision on the flight to Illinois, she changed her schedule. “This is a historic day because after nearly 50 years the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. “Today, as of right now, as of this minute, we can only talk about what Roe v. Roe v. To locally protect and expand abortion rights that are being outlawed across the U.S.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday promised to defend abortion rights in Canada and around the world after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v ...

He called the court’s decision a “devastating setback” for American women, who will now face tremendous disparities in access depending on which state they live in. Wade ruling that guaranteed the constitutional right to an abortion. And I think the federal government can certainly play a role in that.” “The lack of access to accurate information in Canada is a huge barrier for people seeking abortion care,” she said. Mankani says while the news out of the U.S. is “devastating,” she’s heartened that organizations and advocates are stepping up to ensure rights aren’t scaled back elsewhere. “They do not have provincial health insurance and will have to pay for their care if they come to Canada to seek it,” Paynter said. “It lives within the Canada Health Act as a piece of health care, because it is health care.” Although the right to an abortion doesn’t exist in Canada in the same way it was once enshrined in Roe v. But her organization is concerned about Americans coming north for abortion care and is advocating for federal and provincial governments to help clinics with more funding because, as Arthur puts it, “even a small number of Americans can overwhelm our system.” Though the U.S. decision is sending “shock waves” everywhere, the legal ability to have an abortion in Canada is not under threat, said Joyce Arthur, executive director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada. “What happened in the U.S. is very scary, and it’s certainly something we have to be vigilant about,” said Insiya Mankani, public affairs officer for Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights. Canada still faces its own disparities in abortion access and may struggle to act as a “safe haven” for Americans impacted by the overturning of Roe v.

The whole US system of patriarchal capitalism must indeed be aborted.

With the latest Supreme Court ruling, many women in the US will now not have that same privilege of relief. I abandoned the country after graduating from Columbia University in New York in 2003, and proceeded to pursue an internationally itinerant existence during which my healthcare and other needs were, as expected, attended to in a far more humane fashion than in my homeland. On June 24, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that legalised abortion nationwide.

The sensational 1972 “Bobigny trial” of Marie-Claire Chevalier for obtaining an illegal abortion helped decriminalize abortion in France just before Roe v.

Upon her death, President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte sent flowers to the funeral, a gesture confirming Marie-Claire’s critical role in advancing reproductive rights in France. Halimi died in 2020, just a few weeks before the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, arguably her close American counterpart. Rather than stick to the details of Marie-Claire’s case, Halimi chose to target the 1920 law that made a teenage rape victim a criminal, and in doing so turn her client’s misfortune into a groundbreaking legal precedent. On Halimi’s advice, she eventually enrolled in a remote boarding school to escape the media furor, yet discussion of the trial remained ubiquitous. (Her mother, Michèle, received only a symbolic fine that she never had to pay, and the abortionist a suspended one-year prison sentence.) That regulation followed a law from 1920, which, seeking to rebuild the population after the immense losses of the First World War, had banned all voluntary terminations and contraception in France. French women who illegally aborted (an estimated minimum of 300,000 of them every year) could expect punishment of up to two years in prison, and their abortionists up to a decade.

The Supreme Court voted 6 to 3 to uphold a restrictive Mississippi law and overturn the constitutional right to abortion established nearly 50 years ago in ...

The decision in Dobbs v. As the nation continues to feel the fallout from Friday’s Supreme Court decision that overturns Roe v. Roe v.

The Supreme Court on Friday stripped away women's constitutional protections for abortion, a fundamental and deeply personal change for Americans' lives ...

The crowd outside of the barricaded US Supreme Court stood firm. Protesters outraged by the lack of constitutional protections on abortion took to the ...

People on both sides of the abortion debate in South Florida had opinions on the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on Friday, which could essentially pave the way for individual states to ban the procedure. State Sen. Lauren Book and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz, both Democrats, were at the protest with about 200 in Fort Lauderdale. READ MORE > In the dissent, Breyer wrote, there have been “277 reported mass shootings — an average of more than one per day.” WASHINGTON – The crowd outside of the barricaded US Supreme Court stood firm for hours.

Soon after the supreme court struck down abortion protection, pro-choice demonstrators took to the streets.

Fielder was heading to the annual Trans March in the city’s Dolores Park where marchers shouted, “When our community is under attack, what do we do? Fuck the court and the legislature!” She added: “I have no faith that the supreme court is going to stop here. This is one of the most consequential decisions of the past 50 years … and we’re entering into a very dark era.” “We have to go to the streets and raise our voices, even in blue states where our rights are protected. In addition to the large demonstration outside the supreme court in Washington DC – where activists shouted, “This decision must not stand!

The seismic ruling by the US Supreme Court to eliminate the federal constitutional right to an abortion has roiled the country, fueling protests that began ...

I believe we'll be in some dark times for a while, hopefully for not too long, but I do believe the pendulum will swing back." It also protects non-California residents seeking reproductive health care in the state. Hispanic women sought 21% of all abortions in 2019, the data indicates. "I will tell you that any patient who contacts us, we'll see them. "Knowing that women of color are going to bear the brunt of this decision" made sitting home, raging on social media, an impossibility, she added. There were some anti-abortion activists on hand, but they kept a low profile and there were no confrontations seen by the CNN crew walking with the protesters. Those states are Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming. We'll make sure we see them during that 10 days," Derzis said Friday during a news conference. "There were patients who said they were in their car and on their way and asked us, 'It will be OK, won't it?' And we had to tell them, 'No, we have to follow the law," Cathey told CNN. And it still hurts more than you ever thought." Black women accounted for the highest percentage of abortions by women seeking the procedure in the US in 2019, receiving 38.4% of all abortions performed, according to data collected "I want women in other states to see the swell of support -- that the sheer number (of demonstrators) sends a message," said Khatcherian, 32, the daughter of a Filipina mother and Armenian father.

A sea of protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court on Friday, one of many rallies across the country following the end of Roe.

As the day wore on, they were replaced with a large group of people protesting the Supreme Court's decision, holding signs that read "Her Body, Her Choice!" and "Safe + Legal Abortions = Pro Life." "It doesn't matter if you're Republican, doesn't matter if you're Democrat, if you're a Jew or Gentile. You have a choice in the matter. "Some of us out here may say we may never get an abortion, but it's the fact that it's an open access in case somebody needs it," Little said. The day started with a group of anti-abortion demonstrators and even included a fight between converging groups. "We just want to make our voices heard," said Rachel Smith, who attended the protest with a friend. "As a woman, mother, grandmother and great grandmother, I cannot believe we are here again," said Janet Ecksel, of Upper Southampton, standing in a Middletown parking lot. "We can do something; we just have to keep fighting." "Black women are oppressed people when you think of the hierarchy. The same ones that are so familiar to all of us — hurt, scared, furious." "When I saw the news, I sat in all of the emotions I already knew were coming. Robin Sabbath – 59, of Detroit, Michigan – was in her hotel in Washington, D.C. when the ruling was announced. Outside the Supreme Court, Serena Steiner – a 35-year-old legal assistant from Alexandria, Virginia – had tears in her eyes as she spoke about how the decision would affect her sisters and others nationwide.

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade Friday, holding that there is no longer a federal constitutional right to an abortion. Follow here for the latest.

Even if they have to do what they’ve done so often and that’s come through this kind of terrorism,” said Derzis, referring to anti-abortion activists who have frequently gathered near the clinic. “It’s funding all over the country. The police were called," she reported, adding that the situation has since calmed down. “I will tell you that any patient who contacts us, we’ll see them. Fitch has not announced plans for certification. We’re not giving up,” said Diane Derzis, owner of Jackson Women’s Health Organization.